This book is a thorough and precise account of how humor works in short stories, covering the main areas of linguistic analysis and beyond. It offers a model of narrative comedy that is not only interdisciplinary, but also innovative, accessible and explanatory. The volume looks at humorous narratives from a new perspective that is rendered in a clear language and supplemented by definitions of key concepts and a wealth of examples.

Language and Humour in the Media provides new insights into the interface between humour studies and media discourse analysis, connecting two areas of scholarly interest that have not been studied extensively before. The volume adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, concentrating on the various roles humour plays in print and audiovisual media, the forms it takes, the purposes it serves, the butts it targets, the implications it carries and the differences it may assume across cultures. The phenomena described range from conversational humour, canned jokes and wordplay to humour in translation...